On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
>net> 
wrote:
>> Many many thanks for the hint, but it was confusing that it was the
>> Shop:/home/amanda/.amandahosts file I fixed, and not the
>> Shop:/home/backup/.amandahosts.
>
>Presumably backup's home directory (in /etc/passwd) is /home/amanda.
>Don't blame me, I'm not a kubuntu developer.

See?  Its sort of a now it can be told thing.  But that brings up the 
question of who owns /home/amanda on such a (broken IMO) installation?

Somebody should tell the debian/buntu folks that one user, amanda, is more 
than enough to make a good install.

>> And that leaves my mind quite well confused about just who the heck owns
>> what here.  And I don't think this is something I can blame on alzheimers
>> even if I will be 75 on Sunday.
>>
>> This bit of cross-correlation should be FAQ'd better, or a manpage on
>> amandahosts written that covers all this.  I note that manpage is
>> conspiciously absent.
>
>The overall problem you faced here is due to different distros
>building Amanda differently, and there's no simple way to document
>that that wouldn't change daily as distros changed.  However, an
>amandahosts manpage would be a good thing.  Do you want to write one?
>I think there's some info in amanda(8) already, but a separate manpage
>is a good idea.

I agree, as long as it doesn't lead to a lot of duplication in maintaining 
it.

>Dustin
>
Obviously I don't know enough about it to write it.  You just saw the 
evidence of that. :(

Lets see, this is 2009, which means I've been running amanda for a decade 
now, but always in my own isolated, little, occasionally warped world.

Thanks Dustin.

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